Strategic nuclear submarine Yuri Dolgoruky has launched a Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile from the Barents Sea towards the Kura testing range in Kamchatka, the press service of the Russian Defense Ministry told TASS on Wednesday.

"The missile was launched from the submerged position," a spokesman said. "The parameters of the flight trajectory have been fulfilled as required. Data control shows the warheads of the missile reached the Kura testing facility successfully.

According the ministry’s data, this launch had a special feature, as the submarine had a complete set of missiles aboard.

It was the first missile launch after the Yuri Dolgoruky strategic nuclear submarine joined Russia's Northern Fleet.

The previous launches of the Bulava missiles were paerformed as part of a program of flight development testing.

A website which uses DNA swabs to determine a romantic match has received hundreds of thousands of dollars of new investment.

SingldOut has closed a $600,000 (£372,000) seed round - bringing to a close a six-month beta testing phase of the site. The site's users are asked to take a swab of DNA which is then sent back. Partner company Instant Chemistry then looks at specific parts of the genetic code to help determine romantic compatibility between users. It focuses on the three genes within the Human Leukocyte Antigen system which play a role in biological compatibility, the pheromones we release and the makeup of our immune system.

A dog breeder has been found guilty of murdering his partner and her daughter at his puppy farm. John Lowe, 82, opened fire on 66-year-old Christine Lee and her daughter Lucy Lee, 40, with a shotgun he normally used for killing rats. Christine's daughter, Stacy Banner, said after his trial: "The shotgun was one of seven that had been returned to him by the police only months before he used it to kill."

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has launched a formal criminal probe into Tesco's accounting crisis that led the UK's biggest retailer to overstate profits by £263m. The news was confirmed by both the supermarket chain and SFO, hours afterSky News revealed detailsof the investigation, which will be held in addition to an inquiry by the accounting watchdog. The City regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), said that it was to discontinue its own probe because of the SFO's decision. The SFO's investigation, while not entirely unexpected, adds to the sense of crisis at Tesco. The company, which has lost more than half its value during the last year, has been hit by unprecedented boardroom turmoil, with the chairman, Sir Richard Broadbent, planning to quit next year.

An Italian priest who recently admitted to “grave acts” on a teenage girl hanged himself in the vestry of his church, it’s emerged. It came on Tuesday only moments before a bishop came to announce the priest’s side-lining, announced the diocese of Trieste, in north-east Italy. Maks Suard, 48, had told Trieste’s bishop – during a telephone conversation days earlier – of historic acts on a 13-year-old girl, according to AFP. He then asked His Grace Giampaolo Crepaldi for two days to prepare a letter begging forgiveness to God, the Church and the victim, reported the news agency. But, when the bishop arrived on Tuesday (October 28) afternoon to officially notify the priest of his firing from the parish, he found him hanged in the church’s vestry.​The Trieste diocese asked in a statement that people pray for the soul of the priest. The diocese also expressed regrets that the case could not follow its “canon and judicial path” which could have brought the priest “a human and Christian recovery desirable in the respect of the laws”.